To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. (Prov. Vi. 25) Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience. (wake) I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. (Moore)

To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit. Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. (Num. Xxxv. 31) Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. (1 Tim. V. 10)

To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies. You take me right. (bacon) Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the sciencelove of god and our neighbor. (wake) [He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise. (south) You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. (Tate)

To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care for; to superintend or oversee. To take down. To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the proud. I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down. . To swallow; as, to take down a potion. To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them. To take effect, To take fire. See Effect, and Fire. To take ground to the right or to the left, to extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops, to the right or left. To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be encouraged. To take heed, to be careful or cautious. Take heed what doom against yourself you give. . To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy ways. To take hold of, to seize; to fix on. To take horse, to mount and ride a horse. To take in. To inclose; to fence. To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail. To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water. To win by conquest. For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. (Chapman) To receive into the mind or understanding. Some brightgenius can take in a longtrain of propositions. . To receive regularly, as a periodicalwork or newspaper; to take. To take in hand. See Hand. To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an oath. Thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy God in vain. . To take issue. See Issue. To take leave. See Leave. To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription. To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particularattention. To take notice of. See Notice. To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner. To take off. To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to take off one's hat. To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb. To destroy; as, to take off life. To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of an argument. To withdraw; to call or draw away. To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine. To purchase; to take in trade. The Spaniards having no commodities that we will take off. . To copy; to reproduce. Take off all their models in wood. . To imitate; to mimic; to personate. To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars than preferments can take off. To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility. To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice. To take order for. See Order. To take order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. To take orders. To receive directions or commands.

To fasten with a ligature. To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of room. To take permanently. Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts . . . Took up their rest in the Christian religion. . To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds. To admit; to believe; to receive. The ancients took up experiments upon credit. (bacon) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate. One of his relations took him up roundly. (L'Estrange) To begin where another left off; to keep up in continuoussuccession. Soon as the eveningshades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale. (Addison) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors;
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to take up current opinions. They take up our oldtrade of conquering. . To comprise; to include. The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite . . . Takes up seven years. . To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take up a contribution. Take up commodities upon our bills. . To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.

(Science: machinery) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as, to take up lostmotion, as in a bearing; also, to make tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack thread in sewing. To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a quarrel. To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above. To take upon one's self. To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof. To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon one's self a punishment. To take up the gauntlet. See Gauntlet.